5 Lessons Learned from My First Year of Blogging
It was one year ago today that I launched my blog on Medium.
Friends, colleagues, and acquaintances have always reacted to my knowledge of pop culture with a mixture of awe and confusion. Many of these same folks have encouraged me to try blogging over the years with little success. But something changed in the lead-up to the 90th Annual Academy Awards, when I decided that for once my predictions of the winners and reflections on the show would not be crammed into a lengthy Facebook post, but rather a proper blog. Interestingly, the impetus to finally launch the blog came from an unlikely source — my husband’s coworkers, who always enjoyed my Facebook posts providing my thoughts on major Hollywood events and thought I should share them with a larger audience.
Since March 4, 2018, I published 51 articles. I did not plan to publish my 52nd article 52 weeks to the day after I launched my blog, but it’s an amusing coincidence that I did.
My blog has not exactly exploded, but in my judgment it has gained enough traction to be a worthwhile endeavor. At the time I published this article, my articles have been viewed 14,215 times and read in full 4,912 times. I have amassed 252 followers on Medium and made a whopping $197 in payments through the Medium Partner Program. I have written 25 articles about film, 14 about…
